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Apophis Mission Grist

That Robin Andrews is a busy writer: April 16, 2025  Robin George Andrews  www.newscientist.com/article/2476805-the-race-to-visit-the-asteroid-making-the-closest-pass-by-earth/ Asteroid (99942) Apophis was, a generation ago, calculated to have a slight chance of hitting Earth, in 2029. At under a kilometer in size, it would… Read More »Apophis Mission Grist

Hammer of the ‘Don

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An ‘inhuman’-interest piece in MIT Technology Review: April 14, 2025  Robin George Andrews  Meet the researchers testing the “Armageddon” approach to asteroid defense  www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/14/1114306/space-nuclear-explosion-asteroid-protection-research/ Don’t accuse me of fearmongering just because I include planetary defense coverage in the wider small-body… Read More »Hammer of the ‘Don

Note, Paper: Hot Rock Copy

The April Meteoritics & Planetary Science (vol. 60, #4) is finally here: Larsen, K. Krot, A. N. Wielandt, D. et al.  Type B–type C CAI in a CR chondrite: Evidence for multiple melting events, gas–melt interaction, and oxygen-isotope exchange  Page… Read More »Note, Paper: Hot Rock Copy

BBC: (small-)Body Bi-Coverage

Not one but two articles in the BBC today: 4 April 2025  Nelson, S.  Asteroid 2024 YR4: Where do near-Earth asteroids come from – and what can we learn form them? (sic)  www.bbc.com/future/article/20250312-the-astronomers-watching-the-skies-for-asteroids Molloy, M.  Chance of asteroid hitting Moon… Read More »BBC: (small-)Body Bi-Coverage

56th LPSC (2025): Thu, Day 4

…and now Thursday, March 13, 2025 (see also Mon, Tue, Wed) https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/technical_program/ Special Session: Interesting Ices of the Solar SystemRole of Natron in Delaying Retreat of Buried Ice Tables on Ceres and Ceres-Like Objects  [#2251] Landis M. E. et al.A… Read More »56th LPSC (2025): Thu, Day 4